. Orchestration . oot reeds:of the Organ. Eavilios share in the instrument lay in the provision of two tongues ofmetal—the one of silver, the other of brass. The author further describesthem by using the Italian word piva, which means a bagpipe, sometimes thereed of a bagpipe-chanter (geminas linguas sive ut vocant pivas fabrefecit). Theseflexible metal-reeds were placed one in each of the two tubes. They differedin disposition and shape, and, from a consideration of these differences andof their actual material, we may fairly conclude that they were the sound-producers for the treble- and bas
. Orchestration . oot reeds:of the Organ. Eavilios share in the instrument lay in the provision of two tongues ofmetal—the one of silver, the other of brass. The author further describesthem by using the Italian word piva, which means a bagpipe, sometimes thereed of a bagpipe-chanter (geminas linguas sive ut vocant pivas fabrefecit). Theseflexible metal-reeds were placed one in each of the two tubes. They differedin disposition and shape, and, from a consideration of these differences andof their actual material, we may fairly conclude that they were the sound-producers for the treble- and bass-octaves respectively. The principal claimmade for Eavilio is that, by means of ten additional holes, he turned thePhagotus from an instrument of twelve imperfect notes into one of twenty-two very perfect and clear notes (a duodecim imperfectis vocibus ad duas etviginti perfertissimas candidissimasque reduxit voces). 1The old method of measurement. Eight-foot reeds according to our modernnomenclature. Plate XII.
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